³ tn Heb “Men of loyalty are taken away.” The Niphal of אָסַף (ʾasaf) here means “to die.”

⁵ tn Heb “the fish stink from lack of water and die from thirst.”

³ sn The derogatory metaphor indicates that the power of Rezin and Pekah is ready to die out.

³ tn Heb “eaten what is good.” It means he died without having enjoyed the good life.

² sn This line means that he dies prematurely—at the height of his youthful vigor.

¹ tc The LXX contains a paraphrase: “for the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.”

¹ tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”

¹ tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”

² tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

¹ tn “Dogs will eat the ones who belonging to Ahab who die in the city.”

¹ tn Heb “Naboth was stoned and he died.” So also in v. 15.

¹ tn Heb “and he burned the house of the king over him with fire and he died.”

³ tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”

¹ tn Heb “So God will do and so he will add, surely you will certainly die, Jonathan.”

¹ tn Heb “and the two of them also died, Mahlon and Kilion.”

¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the collective singular in this verse: “my God…lest I die.”

³ tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”

¹ tn The word order gives the classification and then the condition: “a man, when he dies….”

⁴ tn Heb “dying you will die.” The imperfect verb form here has the nuance of the specific future because it is introduced with the temporal clause, “when you eat…you will die.” That certainty is underscored with the infinitive absolute, “you will surely die.”

⁴ sn The Hebrew text (“dying you will die”) does not refer to two aspects of death (“dying spiritually, you will then die physically”). The construction simply emphasizes the certainty of death, however it is defined. Death is essentially separation. To die physically means separation from the land of the living, but not extinction. To die spiritually means to be separated from God. Both occur with sin, although the physical alienation is more gradual than instant, and the spiritual is immediate, although the effects of it continue the separation.